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Continue reading →: Power Apps Code Apps – Call an ‘AI Prompt’ with or without a Cloud Flow
Lets say you build a ‘Code App’ and you need to reason over the user’s input with the help of AI. For example, read a customer ticket and decide its category and priority. An AI Builder prompt is a good fit for this. You write the instruction once in plain…
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Continue reading →: Quick Tip | GitHub Copilot – Use multiple models in one session
Did you know you can use more than one model in a single Copilot session? For example, a frontier model (the most capable and costly one) can plan the work, and a cheaper model can build it. This approach could save you money. Why use two models? How does it…
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Continue reading →: Step by Step | Copilot Studio MCP – Create, test and publish an agent from any coding agent
We build Copilot Studio agents in the Copilot Studio portal by adding Instructions, Tools, Knowledge manually. With Copilot Studio MCP, we can now create and test agents from any coding agent that supports MCP. In this article, lets see how to set up Copilot Studio MCP, create a simple agent,…
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Continue reading →: Step by Step | Managed Identity – Read Dataverse records from an Azure Function
If you have connected to Dataverse from an Azure Function, you most likely used Server-to-Server (S2S) authentication. We create an Entra ‘App Registration’, generate a client secret, and add the app as an ‘Application User’ in Dataverse. In this article, lets see how ‘Managed Identity’ replaces the ‘App Registration’ and…
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Continue reading →: Microsoft IQ Explained: Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and Web IQ
Let’s say you use Microsoft Copilot to prepare for a customer meeting. You ask it to summarize recent discussions, review outstanding orders, and find the customer’s latest public announcements. To answer, Copilot needs information from different sources. Microsoft IQ brings together four capabilities that provide this context: Work IQ, Fabric…
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Continue reading →: Work IQ Dev Tools (WIQD) – Build a Microsoft Copilot Cowork Plugin
Work IQ Dev (WIQD) Tools provides commands to build, validate, deploy, and share extensions for Microsoft 365 Copilot. In this article lets use WIQD to build a simple Meeting Follow-up plugin for Microsoft Copilot Cowork using WIQD. What is Work IQ Dev Tools? Note: WIQD is in preview, and its…
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Continue reading →: Step by Step | Rayfin Fabric App – Display Lakehouse table data
In my previous post Step by Step: Build your first Fabric App using Rayfin CLI, we built a Todo app where Rayfin created the SQL database for us. In real projects, the data often already lives in Fabric. Lets build a small Fabric App that reads an existing Lakehouse table…
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Continue reading →: Step by Step | Deploy your MCP Server to Azure and use it in GitHub Copilot CLI
Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets AI agents call your own tools. In an earlier post we built our first MCP server in C# and tested it inside VS Code. In this post we build a small MCP server in C#, host it on Azure App Service and connect to GitHub Copilot CLI. The…
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Continue reading →: Power App Code App | Pay-as-you-go Is a Valid Way to License Code App Users
Did you know that to run a Power Apps code app, each end user needs a premium entitlement?. Most makers know this and assign a Power Apps Premium license to every user. That works. Many do not know that Pay-as-you-go is also a valid option. In this post lets look at…
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Continue reading →: Step by Step | Build your first Copilot Managed Runtime app with the SDK
Copilot Managed Runtime is a Microsoft-hosted service for building business apps that comply with your organization’s governance. Consider a scenario : You have an idea for an app that reads business data and presents it in a UI. Building App is easy with the advent of AI assisted coding. The…
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